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Walter Jon Williams

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in Duluth, Minnesota, The United States

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Science Fiction & Fantasy, Short Stories

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Walter Jon Williams has published twenty novels and short fiction collections. Most are science fiction or fantasy -Hardwired, Voice of the Whirlwind, Aristoi, Metropolitan, City on Fire to name just a few - a few are historical adventures, and the most recent, The Rift, is a disaster novel in which "I just basically pound a part of the planet down to bedrock." And that's just the opening chapters. Walter holds a fourth-degree black belt in Kenpo Karate, and also enjoys sailing and scuba diving. He lives in New Mexico with his wife, Kathy Hedges. ...more

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Monstre!

French pro-Axis poster from the Second World War. Churchill smiles at a starving French family while surrounded by the slogan, “Monster, you make us suffer!”

Churchill looks more like a film comedian than a statesman, let alone a monstre.

The poster is intended to encourage the French public to forget that it was the Germans, not the British, who were confiscating food, fuel, and human beings.

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	Destiny's Way (Star Wars: The New Jedi Order, #14) 3.86 avg rating — 7,332 ratings — published 2002 — 24 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hardwired (Hardwired, #1) 3.92 avg rating — 5,241 ratings — published 1986 — 33 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Praxis (Dread Empire's Fall, #1) 3.83 avg rating — 4,085 ratings — published 2002 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Sundering (Dread Empire's Fall, #2) 3.93 avg rating — 2,752 ratings — published 2003 — 22 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	This is Not a Game (Dagmar Shaw, #1) 3.77 avg rating — 2,657 ratings — published 2009 — 23 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ylesia (Star Wars: The New Jedi Order, #14.5) 3.59 avg rating — 2,714 ratings — published 2002 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Conventions of War (Dread Empire's Fall, #3) 3.99 avg rating — 2,395 ratings — published 2005 — 18 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Rift 3.65 avg rating — 2,511 ratings — published 1999 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Voice of the Whirlwind (Hardwired, #2) 3.92 avg rating — 1,832 ratings — published 1987 — 30 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Aristoi 3.98 avg rating — 1,341 ratings — published 1992 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“I'm not afraid of werewolves or vampires or haunted hotels, I'm afraid of what real human beings to do other real human beings.”
― Walter Jon Williams

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“if a person of authority talks only to those who agree with him he soon finds himself out of authority.

Luke”
― Walter Jon Williams, Destiny's Way

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“If you wish to find the unclouded truth, he told himself, do not concern yourself with right or wrong. Conflicts with right and wrong are a sickness of the mind. The”
― Walter Jon Williams, Voice of the Whirlwind: Author's Preferred Edition

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